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    [Abbey]

    The wrapper scoots a little more!

    It even wobbles!

    Though it hasn't fallen over yet.

    This is progress to say the least! And a little more progress wouldn't hurt. By now Hildur might be noticing that she feels the lightest sensation of blowing from the touchstone.

    Almost imperceptible.

    BUT!

    Certainly more than nothing.
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    [Abbey]

    Hildur is only spurred to keep trying to actually topple the small wrapper. Now that she knows that she's really close to getting it done, she wants to finish it even more. Maybe it'll be surprising that she didn't take all day to actually do it.

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    [Abbey]

    A little wiggle.

    A little shift.

    A little push.

    A little wobble.

    Then a little more.

    Then-!

    ...

    The crinkling sound of a wrapper falling over.
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    [Abbey]

    Hildur can't help but celebrate a little when the wrapper falls over. Sure, it seemed a little silly at first, but she was just glad she'd actually done it.

    But just so she knows it wasn't a fluke, Hildur stands the wrapper back up so that she can knock it over again.

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    [Abbey]

    Yeah!

    Knock that wrapper over again!

    The feeling of blowing through the touchstone has increased ever so slightly. And in fact, blowing the wrapper over is even easier than it was last time! Especially now that Hildur knows what thoughts and feelings to focus on!

    Interestingly enough the touchstone seems to be responding to her emotions more so than anything else. It isn't enough to think about blowing the wrapper over. She has to want to blow the wrapper over.

    And now that she's feeling the surge and pride of success blowing it over is even easier.
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    It growls as the tip of a tentacle is cut off! The tentacle bit wiggles on the ground creepily. The beast moves it's large maw around to jump with it's powerful legs. It tries to bite Rot's legs off. Marciano continues teleporting the crates of magical crystals.
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    Rot swears and swerves in mid-air to dodge the Grundlekrug's snapping jaws. He manages to get his limbs out of the way, but loses a fair bit of expensive cape to the monster's teeth. The vampire's eyes grow wide at the jerk and tearing sound. Oh no it didn't.

    He spins around and hurls his sword at the Grundlekrug, trying to get the vile blade to drop right in the big monster's maw. And hopefully wreck havoc in its insides.
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    [Abbey]

    Hildur's practically beaming as she knocks the wrapper over again. If she could do this very simple thing, what else could she do?

    She almost ends up skipping around the abbey, looking for Agatha to talk about her success.

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    [Abbey]

    Sister Agatha will be found scribbling away on a large sheet of parchment!

    With a really big book right next to her!

    Looks like she's copying it.

    By hand.

    It's an absurdly time consuming process. But someone has to do it!

    She doesn't seem to have noticed Hildur's presence just yet.

    But no doubt that will change shortly!

    And no doubt she'll share all sorts of enthusiasm shortly as well!
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    [Abbey]

    Hildur looks at the parchment and book. "That looks like a lot of work," she says, softly to try to not disturb Agatha. "You probably don't want to hear that I did what you said."

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    [Abbey]

    Pfft!

    Seriously?

    Are you kidding Hildur?

    "WOW!" Agatha quite literally yells. Several other Nuns do their best to ignore her. One just rolls her eyes in an endearing fashion. "That was really fast! You must be a natural! See? I told you the Emperor had other talents for you that you didn't know about!"

    Woo!

    She's beaming! So happy for her friend!

    "Go practice a little more! I'll finish up this page and bring you something else!"
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    [Abbey]

    "Of course!" Hildur says, and goes back to where she was to practice more. She's getting better at this, and her self-deprecating mood is gone. There was something she could do well without having her feet on a snowboard.

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    [Abbey]

    And with a little imagination on a snowboard...

    Well.

    That's getting a little ahead of things.

    Hildur is still only blowing over candy wrappers after all.

    Anywho!

    Agatha won't show up again for a little over an hour. But when she does she has with her a small, delicate looking... well... Looks like plate. But a plate made out of some yellowish crystalline material. Is has an odd sort of translucence to it, appearing almost blue toward the center. Nor is it a solid piece, but rather a finely woven mesh of many small fibers.

    The Nun will hold the object out. "When we go out on our missions we try to bring back some of the more valuable things the enemies of the Empyreum have. Foci especially. They're very hard to come by."

    When Hildur takes it she'll find that it feels like she's holding nothing. The strange material is only slightly heavier than air. "Gossamer. The focus for the air element."
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    [Abbey]

    Hildur takes the sorta-plate, and she's very surprised by how light it is. "This... certainly feels like it's a focus of air. It feels like nothing." Like with the touchstone, she turns the gossamer in her hands, taking great care to not drop it.

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    [Abbey]

    "I think you'll find it a lot easier to use that than the touchstone," Agatha says. "And for your next assignment!"

    She then hauls back and thwacks the plate right in the middle!

    With a sound like crunching glass it shatter and warps, though somehow still remaining as one piece. And it seems to have somehow tripled in volume as well. There are more shards than there was previously space to hold them.

    ...

    Weird.

    Agatha grins a knowing grin. "For your next assignment you need to get that back to its old shape and size. Have fun!"

    Off she goes!
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    [Abbey]

    Hildur stares down at all of the fragments plate as Agatha leaves, getting down on her knees to better examine this. Okay, how was she going to go about this? Though she picks through some of the pieces with one of her hands, she guess that this won't be done physically.

    Like with the touchstone, Hildur tries to feel the presence of the gossamer. If she can, she'll try to move a few fragments without touching them.

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    [Abbey]

    Interestingly enough the pieces can all be moved around, however they never cease to be connected to each other. The fragments will slide through other fragments, but attempting to pull them away causes them to increase in size rather than being detached.

    Well.

    This stuff is really weird.

    When Hildur tries to focus her mind on the Gossamer there isn't an inkling that it's an extension of her as it was with the touchstone. No, this strangely ethereal crystal is part of her. As fully part of her as her arm or her leg.

    It beats in tune with her heart.

    Breaths in harmony with her lungs.

    It responds to her emotions not with subtle breezes, but with a noticeable wind that flaps pages on a book ten feet away.

    Moving the fragments isn't terribly different from moving her own fingers. And if she can control the shape so easily one is left to wonder what other shapes she might create.
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    [Abbey]

    Well, that was a new feeling. Hildur is confused, but like with the touchstone, she doesn't mind. In fact, she really likes the gossamer. However, she realizes that she'll have to be a little more subtle with her emotions.

    With that in mind, Hildur starts to try and reform the gossamer back to its original size and shape. It probably won't be that difficult for her.

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    Evan manages to keep the surprise off his face when he sees that E11 is female, "Let me see your helmet," Assuming E11 hands Evan the helmet, he'll go over whatever cracks are left in it before handing it back, and checking the armor itself for damage "... Hmm. We have to do something about all that damage... In any case, the fact that you did better in sparring than your peers is good. keep working on that skill and you should end up quite good at what you do." He then stands, and moves to the next drone, doing the same process with this one - asking for the helmet, inspecting the armor, asking how the sparring went, then handing the helmet back with a comment on how they should continue with things.

    He'll go through this process all down the line.
    E11 takes the helmet and nods to her superior before putting it back on. She seems to find his comment acceptable, and even seems a little proud.

    The others don't seem to be very good with emotions. Most talk and act robotically, though a few seem to have picked up pride or happiness at the very least.

    In general, the cloned troops are strong and powerful, but rather slow and rigid. E11, E50, and E41 seem to be the best of the batch. E20, E32, and E60 were the most injured. No broken bones, thankfully - Naitiri would not have been happy.

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    Cessie barely manages to hold back the laughter as she says, "You may." With a smile, accepting the stag's hand, or at least the hand she expects he will offer. If he does she will put her other hand on the back of his neck.

    Then they will dance, or at least attempt to do so if Adir is able. Cessie is somewhat encumbered by her nine months pregnant belly though so she isn't all that agile either.
    Adir does offer his hand, and the two likely go waltzing around the table. Adir is able, but he's clumsy and club-footed. The heavily pregnant woman is probably better than him, however sad that happens to be.

    Still, this hasn't put a damper on his attitude. He swings Cessie about more quickly than he should, 'singing', "Dummm, da da dummm, da da dum da da dum, dum dum dummm..." He shakes his head with mock disapproval. "C'mon, Cessie, try to keep time!"
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    Technically not new.

    Just much stronger than the previous instance of this feeling. Much much stronger. But also much more natural feeling. It's very odd to say the least.

    The fragments shift and crunch and reorient themselves whilst expanding and contracting until after just fifteen minutes or so the shattered mess looks like a plate again.

    Well!

    That actually didn't take much time at all!

    ...huh.

    Well.

    Now what?
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    [Abbey]

    Hildur is, as is the usual case, confused at how quickly this was. Only fifteen minutes? And it had seemed so difficult.

    Well, as long as it remained this easy, Hildur decides to see how else she can shape the gossamer. She tries to form it into a glove that would perfectly fit on her hand.

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    [Abbey]

    The glove is harder. Not only is it a more complicated shape (by a lot) it's also a very fine shape. It means crunching the Gossamer VERY thin.

    Though it'll be possible. The Gossamer seems to share some properties with gas in that changing its volume just changes its density. It doesn't seem to have any issue with it.

    So yes. Making a glove.

    A very doable task.

    It'll just take a while.

    Probably an hour or two.

    But when Hildur is finished...
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    [Abbey]

    Once Hildur is finished reshaping the gossamer into a glove, she'll of course put the glove on her hand, just to see how it feels. Probably not at all like a regular glove, but she can bet that it'll feel a lot more normal than the heavy gloves she usually wear.

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    [Abbey]

    As expected wearing the glove feels rather akin to wearing nothing.

    Eerr...

    On her hand, that is. Wearing a glove wouldn't make all her clothing feel like nothing. That would be absurd.

    Anywho!

    The gloves makes a soft rustling sound as she moves it, like the sound of wind blowing through the canopy of a forest. It's actually rather soothing if you happen to be into that sort of thing.

    If Hildur feels inclined to actually test out the focus she should probably go outside. The elemental power this object can potentially command is orders of magnitude greater than the touchstone.

    Given a bit of practice Hildur could probably speed up the process of changing the focus' shape considerably, allowing it to take on all sorts of forms. Like... say... a board-like shape?
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    [Abbey]

    Hildur does go outside eventually, but not nearly as far as she had before, staying very close to the building in case another crazy yeti attacks. Now that she knows she's aligned with wind, she finds that the feeling of cool air against her skin was much better than she had realized.

    She continues to practice with shaping the focus. Once she gets good enough, she will (of course) try and shape it into a snowboard.

    She's obsessed, I say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Murkus View Post
    Adir does offer his hand, and the two likely go waltzing around the table. Adir is able, but he's clumsy and club-footed. The heavily pregnant woman is probably better than him, however sad that happens to be.

    Still, this hasn't put a damper on his attitude. He swings Cessie about more quickly than he should, 'singing', "Dummm, da da dummm, da da dum da da dum, dum dum dummm..." He shakes his head with mock disapproval. "C'mon, Cessie, try to keep time!"
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    The movement along with her recent meal creates a slight discomfort which shows in her expression. "Adir... unless you like your burger back I'd suggest we stop now. That's enough dancing for today."
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    [Abbey Courtyard]

    It's kind of neat out here!

    Nice and open.

    With some weird stone pillars sticking out of the ground. Wonder what those are fo-

    Oh.

    Wait.

    Is that Sister Tabitha standing on top of one? The woman's eyes are closed as she transitions from stance to stance, a fluid dance of grace and serenity as she steps from one pillar to another. She's probably the smallest of the Sisters in stature, petite and delicate looking. But the way she moves suggests that she's anything but delicate.
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    [Abbey Courtyard]

    Hildur's a little distracted from her learning about the shaping of gossamer when she notices Tabitha on the stone pillars. She falls into an almost dead silence, practically transfixed by the grace.

    Hildur takes the gossamer in her hand and reshapes it so that it's a plate again. She probably shouldn't be thinking about snowboarding right now.

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    [Abbey Courtyard]

    There are times when thinking about snowboarding isn't a good idea? That sounds like madness!

    *ahem*

    Tabitha doesn't seem to notice that she has an audience.

    Or...

    At least she doesn't react at all if she had noticed.

    The dance continues, step by step, motion by motion, perfectly choreographed in every movement.

    And then one eye opens, spying the snowboarder. "Oh!" Tabitha wobbles slightly, though quickly regains her balance. "...oh... I... ummm... I didn't see you there... Were you watching long?"
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    [Abbey Courtyard]

    "No, not very long," Hildur says as she slips the gossamer into one of the pockets on her jacket. "I just though you were really good at what you were doing, and I wanted to watch for a bit. Sorry if I distracted you."

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    [Abbey Courtyard]

    "Oh... umm..." Tabitha looks down at her feet somewhat bashfully. "...it wasn't anything special..."

    "Ha ha! Don't listen to her!" comes the familear voice of Agatha as she joins the other two in the courtyard. "Sister Tabitha is probably the most skilled disciple of the Devotion of Meekness the Abbey has ever seen."

    Tabitha responds to this by blushing deeply and looking away.

    "How have you been doing with the focus, Hildur? Did you fix it?" Agatha inquires.

    Tabitha seems very interested in this conversation already! "Oh! Is... umm... is Lady Hildur a shaper?"

    "Maybe! She's learning really fast!" Agatha laughs.
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